5 things that will happen in Avengers: Endgame, now that we have seen the Avengers 4 trailer

Marvel dropped the highly anticipated trailer for Avengers 4 on Friday night (IST), sending the fandom into a frenzy. Low-key hints about the future of the Avengers were dropped, a title was revealed and the 2 min 25 second-long clip become the most viewed movie trailer in just 24 hours with 289 million views. One of the key things that the trailer revealed was the title of fourth Avengers movie. Rumour mills were abuzz as to what would the movie be called and we finally have an answer -- Avengers: Endgame. A term that was mentioned twice in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before, it makes perfect sense now that Dr. Strange even calls the war at Titan the 'endgame' in Infinity War (Tony Stark earlier refers to fighting Ultron as the endgame in Avengers: Age of Ultron). While on one hand, the trailer was busy blowing minds, on the other, it raised a fair number of questions.

After watching the trailer over a billion times (Clearly exaggerated, actual number being 279 million) we have a few theories that we believe could be put into action in Avengers: Endgame, releasing on April, 2019. While it is possible that we could have missed out a few, we have also compiled a few from fan forums over the internet that made their case. Here are some of the most likely theories about what will happen in Avengers: Endgame after watching the trailer:

1. Who will save Tony Stark?

At the beginning of the trailer, we saw Tony Stark record a heartfelt goodbye message for his fiance, Pepper Potts. "Part of the journey is the end," he says as we see his Quinjet floating away in outer space. While all of this points to Stark's inevitable death -- remember how Stark tells Peter Parker in Infinity War that it would be is a one-way trip? -- there may be reasons to believe that Stark will be rescued, perhaps right after he records this message.

We suspect that this is what Dr. Strange did at the end of Infinity War. The keeper of the Time Stone, Dr. Strange was adamant that if it had to be between the Stones and the fate of the other superheroes, he would not hesitate to let them die. Even then, when Thanos almost killed Tony Stark in Titan, Strange gives up the Time Stone for his compatriot's life, calling it 'the only way.' So it would seem that Tony Stark will have a bigger role in fighting Thanos and bringing normalcy to the world after The Decimation (yes, looks like that's what we are going to call Thanos' snap) than to just float away.

But who will save Stark? Iron Man and Nebula were the only two survivors in Titan after The Decimation and we do get to see a clip of Nebula in the same Quinjet later in the trailer, which means that they were together at some point. Maybe Nebula left to check for others or to kill Thanos herself (because we all know what happened the last time she did that) which has left Stark floating in space for four days. Captain Marvel is one of the favourites to save Iron Man, which will also mark her entry in the movie. Another option could be Valkyrie from Ragnarok since Tessa Thompson had earlier confirmed that Valkyrie is alive and kicking after The Decimation.

2. What's up with Thanos now?

Soon after the Tony Stark sequence, the trailer shows Thanos' battle armor being arranged like a scarecrow on the tropical planet that we last saw the supervillain on, at the end of Infinity war. Comic-book lovers would have immediately recognised this as MCU's nod to the 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comic where Thanos has retired from villainy and is now a farmer on a remote alien world. In the end of Infinity War, we saw how Thanos was deeply saddened by the events of The Decimation and instead of gloating, he was more introspective and could have resorted to the life of a simpleton.

3. What the hell happened to Captain America's beard?

After a brief glance of Thanos and that remote planet, the trailer then shifts to the new Shield base with a voiceover from Black Widow reminding us about the tragic events of Infinity War while the camera turns to a sobbing Captain America. And from the look of things, it appears that Cap's glorious beard too was a victim of Thanos' snap. Rogers seems to have cleaned up after The Decimation but there is one interesting thing that we spotted in the remaining scenes that feature Captain America. Notice his suit?

Cap is wearing the same suit he wore in Winter Soldier, a suit has never made an appearance in the MCU since then. This makes us wonder about the possibility of time travel in Avengers: Endgame. There are two possibilities of time travel happening in the movie: either Dr. Strange has cast some sort of a time loop on the stone (similar to what we saw in the Dr. Strange movie with Dormammu) or our heroes have found a way to travel through the time vortexes in the quantum realm (we'll get to that in a bit). Or Captain America just got a shave. Either way, Captain America is now beardless and that's a shame.

4. Is that really Ronin?

Soon after the above scene featuring Captain America, get to see a man in what looks like a black and gold costume, wielding a katana-like blade on the streets of a rain drenched city. The man turns around and turns out to be Hawkeye. But what happened to him?

Comic book fans will already know that Ronin is an identity that Clint Barton uses in Marvel comics from 2007 to 2010. From the short glance, it does look like Barton is now Ronin but one question that arises is how? Jeremy Renner, who was last seen in Civil War, was under house arrest for siding with Captain America and was living happily with his wife and three little kids. Maybe Thanos' snap wiped out his entire family and this is his journey seeking vengeance. Whatever it is, Hawkeye just became a thousand times cooler and frankly, we cannot wait to see what's in store for him.

5. Is Ant-Man truly the hero that we all deserve?

While many of us expected Captain Marvel to show up in the trailer, it's understandable that we haven't seen her yet because of her solo movie coming up in March 2019. The events that occur in Captain Marvel could be key to her relationship with the Avengers and how she is introduced in the movie. But the unlikely twist was that Scott Lang shows up to the Avengers HQ's front door with Captain America and Black Widow figuring out when the video is from. The last we saw of Ant-Man, he was stuck in the quantum realm while his close aides including the Wasp were wiped out due to the decimation. So how did he get out of it? And does that hold the key to defeating Thanos? April couldn't come sooner.